Sleek neoliberal bastards who eagerly spout diversity slogans have convinced us that the true threat to everything good is some pickup-truck driving Uncle Ted in a MAGA hat. We donate tons of free labor to enrich the sleek bastards in return for the chance to rubbish Uncle Ted online. In the meantime, the sleek bastards are robbing both us and Uncle Ted and repeating “Nazis, Nazis, Nazis everywhere” to keep us at each other’s throats.
Large corporations in combination with monopoly, oligopoly, and crony capitalism (assisted by a generous side helping of inequality) are the true factors vitiating the health of the country and our society. The above-mentioned factors require an unimaginably vast and comprehensive propaganda and surveillance apparatus to preserve, so here’s a fact: most of what you think, believe, understand, is corporate-mediated and essentially corporate-controlled. This is true of everyone, because there is almost no viable alternative.
Believing some white dude in a red hat making 40K a year is in control of any damn thing is daft to the extreme, just as certainly as believing any immigrant is by nature a dangerous terrorist-in-waiting. These are narratives of subjection and domination and the left is just as enmeshed in them as the right, even if they are “kinder” about it all.